2. 如果婚姻是场交易,浪漫价值几何?

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If marriage is a trade, then what price romance? - Oxford Abridged Short Talks

Theatre was a popular forum for early twentieth-century feminists to challenge romantic ideals of marriage, arguing that it amounted to prostitution when soc...

So, what is any respectably girl brought up to do

but to catch some rich man's fantasy

and get the benefit of his money by marrying him

as if a marriage ceremony made any difference

in the right or the wrong of the thing

Ah, the hypocrisy of the world makes me sick

That's Mrs. Warren from Shaw's 1893 play

Mrs. Warren's profession

She's an ex-prostitute and brothel keeper

and when her Girton educated daughter finds out

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